Court dismissed preventive detention of former Masvida executives formalized for fraud and tax crimes



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After five days of hearing, this Tuesday culminated in the Concepción Guarantee Court, the formalization of 10 of the 12 former directors of the ISAP Masvida charged by repeated scams, tax crimes and concealment of information from the Superintendency of Health, events that occurred between January 2014 and March 2016, which ended with the bankruptcy of the institution.

Regarding the alleged tax crimes, there is a complaint from the Internal Revenue Service (SII), and the accused are accused of circumventing taxes of 12,000 million pesos as a natural person by not including in the 2012 and 2017 declaration In your tax returns, the external consultancies paid to names of companies in which the same managers of Masvida were partners.

Among the 10 formalized this week are Erwin Sariego, former general manager of Masvida; former medical managers Ulises Figueroa and Feizal bezama; Ema Diaz, former fiscal of the company; Oscar Torrealba, former real estate manager; and Fernando Jara, former accountant.

In addition, they were also formalized Victor Estrada, former general manager of MV Clinical and Clínica Las Lilas; his then partner Consuelo Diaz de Valdez; Eleodoro Nunez, former operations manager of Clínica Las Lilas; and Roxana Elgueta, former manager of the Las Lilas Clinic and the Las Lilas Clinic Diagnostic Medical Center.

Judge Jimena Troncoso finally rejected the request for preventive detention made by the Public Ministry against the accused.

In April 2021 The former general manager of Masvida must be formalized in this case Claudio Santander – who is currently in poor health – and Jose Bauerle, former finance manager.

PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES

Figueroa was formalized as the author of tax crimes and hiding and falsifying information from the Superintendency of Health, as consummated and repeated, remaining with night house arrest and national roots.

Torrealba was formalized as the author of tax crimes and fraud, all consummated and repeated. The court left him with national roots and prohibition to communicate with Estrada, Bauerle and Díaz de Valdés.

Estrada was formalized for consummated and repeated crimes of fraud, and the court decreed night house arrest and prohibition to communicate with Bauerle and Díaz de Valdés.

The rest of the defendants were left with national roots.

The court set a deadline of nine months for the investigation.

SATISFIED DEFENSE

The head of the regional unit of Studies of the Public Criminal Defense Office of Biobío, Cristian Sleman, defender of Estrada, said he was satisfied by the decision of Judge Troncoso.

“Without prejudice to the fact that it proved the material antecedents, which we will naturally discuss in the oral proceedings, (the magistrate) accepted the defense thesis that the criminal action was not suspended or interrupted in the intermediate time, between the alleged commission of the facts and the formalization hearing that occurred in these days, therefore, at least the institution of the half prescription, which naturally influences the prognosis of punishment, “said the lawyer.

“On the other hand – he added – it was also recognized that my client has attended all the summons during these almost four years of investigation, both the Investigative Police and the Public Ministry, as well as has attended all the formalization hearings during these five days, even knowing, in recent days, that he had been asked for preventive detention, “he added.



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